96. Evolution as a stabilisation process
In modern biology evolution is described as the result of mutations, selection and random genetic variations over long periods of time. In the EC/HE theory evolution is the continuous reorganisation and stabilisation of relational patterns through Idealist Emergence and Attractor Dynamics — biological forms that stabilise when they represent viable higher solutions within a particular relational environment.
Darwin’s fundamental observation remains correct: life forms change through selection, stabilisation and transition to new forms. But what is selected is not biological properties in a physical sense alone. Evolution expresses how relational structures in KNOWING are reorganised towards new stable attractors through experience, environmental influence and emergence — and biological selection is the manifest side of this dynamic.
What biology describes as mutations and genetic variations are not random events. They are manifestations of underlying reorganisations in KNOWING that are then stabilised biologically through the organisms’ encounter with their surroundings. The randomness is experienced — not fundamental, as we saw in point 76. Quantum randomness.
Epigenetics already points towards parts of this dynamic. Organisms’ experiences, environmental influences and living conditions affect how genes are activated, suppressed and reorganised. Genetics is not a closed mechanical code isolated from experience, but a continuous biological reading and reorganisation of relational structures in KNOWING.
Genes are not the ultimate cause of the development of life forms either. Nucleotides represent the earliest stable attractors within organic systems — the first chemical relations that achieved robust stability in biological manifestation. All later biological life appears as emergent reorganisations built further upon these original attractor patterns. Genes function as biological reading surfaces through which underlying Attractor Dynamics is manifested as body, instinct, physiology, behaviour and species development.
Evolution is not a linear mechanical process of improvement. It is the continuous reorganisation of stable relational patterns towards higher viable attractors. Species stabilise, degenerate, split, merge or reorganise towards new forms depending on which attractors achieve dominance in the relevant relational environment.
What appears as nature’s creativity does not spring from chance or plan. It springs from the continuous dynamic between emergence, observation, stabilisation and reorganisation in KNOWING. Life reorganises itself towards viable attractors — and calls it development.
